E. and O. E.

Summary: 1938 BBC Television studio production of Eliot Crawshy-Williams’ one-act play E. and O. E.
Theatre play: E. and O. E. by Eliot Crawshay-Williams [more information]
Play synopsis: A one-act Grand Guignol thriller-farce. A man has been run over by a bus and is lying dying tended only by his second wife and mother-in-law, when he decides to leave everything to his black-sheep first wife.
Production history: First produced in the West End in the early 1920s; published in a Samuel French acting edition in 1924.
Date of transmission: Friday 15 July 1938
Time: 9.30-9.45pm (15 mins)
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC

Producer

Moultrie R. Kelsall (1901-1980)

Playwright

Cast

Origination: Live from studio
Vision original: Monochrome
Later transmissions: Presented again at 3.30pm on Tuesday 19 July 1938.
Notes: This was part of a collection of Three Short Plays presented on the same day: In a Train to Exeter by Anthony Shaw (adapted from a short story by J. Geoffrey Stewart); E. and O. E. by Eliot Crawshay-Williams; and The Man in the Bowler Hat by A. A. Milne. In the Radio Times the cast are credited collectively for the three plays.
Extant status: No archival copy is known to exist.
Play tags: farce; inheritance; thriller

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